Defense

The community will be able to celebrate all veterans on Armed Forces Day on May 16. The event will take place at Nevers Road Park and begin with a road race and culminate with fireworks that evening. This will be the first of several patriotic events in the town that will take place over the next month. Armed Forces Day was created in 1949 by Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson in an effort to unite all divisions of the Armed Forces as opposed to each division celebrating separately. "Our veterans are out there serving their country in different capacities and we should acknowledge them," said Commander Art Sladyk of American Legion Post 133 and a member of the Patriotic...

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